Raging Fire Consumes Brazil’s National Museum

Sunday was indeed a sad day for Brazil according to the Country’s President, Michel Temer, after a raging fire broke out at in the Country’s National Museum in Rio de Janeiro reducing the 200-year-old tourists attract into ashes.

Workers at the museum scampered for safety after scrambling a number of artifacts as the fire consumed the entire source of their livelihood and pride.

The Museum was founded in the year 1818 and was home to more than 20 million artifacts which included meteorites, mummies, insects, and fossils.

The buildings, which have been reported to be seen burning from miles away were previously a palace to the Portuguese royal family before being turned into a museum 200 years ago.

Seven firefighter stations worked to put out the fire whose flames raged towering down a part of Brazil’s history whose lose President Michel said was too great to calculate.

“The loss of the National Museum’s collection is insurmountable for Brazil. Two hundred years of work, research and knowledge were lost,” President Temer said in a tweet on Sunday expressing his sadness over the tragedy.

Workers at the Museum watched helplessly in tears and disbelief as the fire threw Brazil into a rare kind of mourning.

“This is 200 years of work of a scientific institution, the most important one in Latin America. Everything is finished. Our work, our life was all in there,” Marco Caldas, a museologist at the National Museum said adding that he had rushed over as soon as news of the tragedy reached him.